Chick-fil-A Supports "LGBT" Causes

Last month, Chick-fil-A sponsored a film festival that promotes open-mindedness toward the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) movement. The film festival, Level Ground, was founded by two Fuller Theological Seminary students to create “safe space for dialogue about faith, gender and sexuality through the arts.” Participating in the October 15 festival were Jennifer Knapp, a Contemporary Christian Music artist who “came out” as a lesbian in 2005, and Karen Swallow Prior, an English professor at Liberty University and a research fellow for the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention (“Chick-fil-A challenged,”Baptist News, Oct. 29, 2015). This summer, Chick-fil-A donated food to a gay pride parade in Iowa (“Why is pro-marriage Chick-fil-A sponsoring an LGBT film festival?”Charisma News, Oct. 28, 2015). In 2012, there was a huge outpouring of support for Chick-fil-A after its president, Southern Baptist Dan Cathy, voiced support for traditional marriage and was attacked by homosexual rights activists. Less than two years later Cathy backtracked on that, telling the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that it had been a “mistake” to “support political or social agendas.” He said that he had been working with LGBT activist Shane Windmeyer and that Chick-fil-A had “dramatically” cut donations to groups considered to be “anti-gay” by homosexual activists.

(Friday Church News Notes, November 6, 2015, www.wayoflife.org, [email protected], 866-295-4143)

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